Robert Laurence Metcalf (18 November 1935 –
26 December
Events Pre-1600
* 887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
*1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of B ...
2014) was an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
priest and author.
Metcalf was educated at
Durham University
, mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1)
, established = (university status)
, type = Public
, academic_staff = 1,830 (2020)
, administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19)
, chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen
, vice_chan ...
. After
national service with
REME he was
ordained in 1963. He served
curacies in
Bootle and
Widnes; and
incumbencies in
Wigan and
Wavertree. He was
Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1994 until 2002.
[‘METCALF, Ven. Robert Laurence’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Feb 2015]
References
1935 births
2014 deaths
Archdeacons of Liverpool
Alumni of St John's College, Durham
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